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Friday 16 April 2010

NaPoWriMo 2010 Day 16

NAPOWRIMO 2010 DAY 16
WHAT'S THAT SMELL?
Read Write Poem member Julie Jordan Scott launches her NaPoWriMo prompt with a quote from Diane Ackerman: “Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.” Julie reports having discovered in her own notes 17 pages on the subject! Here’s the prompt she culled from material she’s collected:
Practicing the art of writing from the sense of smell will open language in a different way than writing from a more “language friendly” sense, like the sense of sight or sound. Because of this, writing that uses a scent prompt evokes visceral, richly experienced poetry.
Scientific fact: Salmon smell their stream of birth from hundreds of miles away. The scent of this particular stream weaves its way to the salmon like a love-call. It rises and falls with the water, its essence calling the ancient connection. The salmon respond to this invitation and make their way back to their spawning ground.
Humans have primitive connections to the sense of smell, as well. It is our most primal sense, especially since the connections between the language centers and smell sensory centers are so few. Our sense of smell is tied to our most ancient selves. Another intriguing fact? Smell is connected closely to our memory centers even though it is distant from our language centers.
Somewhere near where you are sitting is something with a specific smell that will conjure a memory rich with images. Take a moment to find any such object and breathe the scent of it, deeply. It may be as simple as a strand of your hair, a ketchup bottle from the refrigerator, a potholder or a bottle of lotion.
Add to your breath the simple phrase, “I remember” and breathe the scent in again. “I remember.” Free write from “I remember” for at least five minutes, repeating the prompt “I remember” if your writing slows.
Use the seeds from your free writing to write today’s poem.
HERE'S MINE:
There's a rotten egg smell in the air this morning and a thin layer of dust on the ground, it's coming from the volcanic erruption in Iceland.
DINOSAUR 
                    EGGS 
                                   DON'T 
                                               HALF 
                          SMELL 
can't sniff up
technology sucks
rotten eggs

terminology
terminal decline

volcanic
geology cools
rocks hot up

technicality
volcano errupts

lava flow
sea level rises
ice explodes

air crews are grounded
robocop patrols

bionics
cross automatom
robotic

inspirational
regeneration

greenhouse whiff
geodisical
salvation

mechanisation
dinosaurs return
16042+10

10 comments:

  1. You never know what might come hurtling out of an erupting volcano...

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  2. Interesting stream of consciousness flow to it.

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  3. Andy,
    This is excellent! Nice work!
    Pamela

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  4. Love the cacophonous word choices!

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  5. I like the way you list that which conjures smells especially with the latest lava flow that has grounded all kinds of transportation. Mother Nature triumphs again!

    Nice work!

    ~Mark

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  6. "geodisical
    salvation"

    Nice work!

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  7. Je suis le dinosaur! Vive L'eruption!

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  8. Hi and thanks for visiting,

    I'm with Dan on "geodisical
    salvation"!

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  9. I liked it and especially, the way it started.

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